Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China says stabilising FX market is top priority, warns against 'gambling'
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Wednesday that stabilising the foreign exchange market is the top priority, after the yuan weakened to its lowest level since the global financial cri...
Sep 28, 2022
Pope to visit Bahrain for conference in November, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit predominantly Muslim Bahrain Nov. 3-6 to attend an international conference, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. The Vatican said the pope would visit ...
Sep 28, 2022
China may extend refined fuel export quota into next year - sources
By Chen Aizhu and Jing Xu SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China may tweak a proposed sharp increase in refined fuel export quotas for this year by extending the plan into next year, as it weighs the ben...
Sep 28, 2022
Sweden and other central banks to test digital currency payments
OSLO (Reuters) - The Swedish, Norwegian and Israeli central banks have launched a project with the Bank for International Settlements to test international retail and remittance payments with central ...
Sep 28, 2022
Marketmind: Gimme Shelter
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. As the final quarter of an unremittingly dire year for world markets hoves into view, stocks and bonds have now cratered to new lows...
Sep 28, 2022
Kremlin dismisses 'stupid' claims Russia attacked Nord Stream
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday said claims that Russia was somehow behind a possible attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were stupid, adding that Moscow saw a sharp increase the profi...
Sep 28, 2022
Iran's nationwide protests pile pressure on state
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian riot police deployed in Tehran's main squares on Wednesday to confront people chanting "death to the dictator" as nationwide protests over the death of young...
Sep 28, 2022
After sharp right turn, U.S. Supreme Court conservatives step on the gas
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court last March rebuffed an emergency request by North Carolina Republicans to allow the use in November's congressional elections of an electoral map the...
Sep 28, 2022
Entire villages empty out as Ukrainians flee from Russian annexation, refugees say
By Jonathan Landay ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - "It's funny. Nobody voted, yet the results are in," laughed Lyubomir Boyko, 43, from Golo Pristan, a village in Russian-occupied Kherson province a...
Sep 28, 2022
Opioid crisis cost U.S. nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020 -Congressional report
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic toll of the opioid addiction and overdose crisis on the United States reached nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020 alon...
Sep 28, 2022
